Re: Looks Like Multiple Masters Is A Dead Technology
Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]>
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On 15-12-10 08:16 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:15:36 +0100, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > >> On 15-12-09 10:24 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> Is anybody still making TrueType GX fonts? I thought that was even >>> less successful than Multiple Masters. >> >> It's been making a come-back this year: >> >> https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/blob/master/Snippets/interpolate.py >> >> https://goo.gl/J1O2OX > > Well, that looks like fun. :) > > I have my doubts, though. While font-design tools are acquiring all > kinds of parametric, even scripting, capability, it seems like > parametric type rendering has not been very popular > <https://www.typotheque.com/articles/typeface_as_programme_peter_bilak>. Yes, parametric type design is not popular. That's why we are building GX from workflows that font designers are already using: multiple compatible masters. That's different from parametric design. -- cairo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo